Omar V.
Mexico
Summary
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SeniorOmar Vazquez is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading web platforms, currently driving engineering work at ActiveProspect from Mexico. He specializes in Ruby on Rails, Ruby, and JavaScript, and has moved between hands-on engineering and leadership roles—from Platform Tech Lead at Domestika to senior consulting and mentoring positions. Omar contributes to notable open-source projects like Spree, where he has improved shipping and tracking functionality and added tests that touched core models and cost calculations. He combines strong technical depth with team coaching experience, having led engineering groups and mentored new developers at BrightCoders Academy. Comfortable across backend and frontend concerns, he favors pragmatic, test-driven changes that improve real-world eCommerce flows. His background in mechatronics and an Engineer’s Degree in Computer Science gives him a practical, systems-oriented perspective that informs both architecture and implementation choices.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
407reputation
46kreached
13answers
2questions
Github Skills (23)
back-end-development10
ecommerce10
ruby10
spree10
backend10
ruby-on-rails10
spreed10
testing9
rails9
javascript8
ruby-rails8
shopify7
open-source7
webshop7
shopware7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
spree/spree
Oct 2017 - Jan 2018
Open Source eCommerce Platform for B2B, Marketplace, and Enterprise. REST API, TypeScript SDK, and production-ready Next.js storefront. Self-host it. Own your stack. No vendor lock-in. Zero platform fees.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 3 months
Contributions summary:Omar contributed to the Spree e-commerce platform by addressing shipping method display issues and enhancing tracking information functionality. They modified backend views and JavaScript code to ensure proper display of shipping methods and update tracking content. Additionally, the user created tests for the #transfer_to_location method and made related updates to the core models to reflect the test changes, including tax charge and shipping cost calculations.
ecommercenextjsrestrest-apitypescript
vzqzac/twgitbot
Jul 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:33 commits, 5 PRs, 34 pushes in 10 months
twitter-botnode-jsbotaccounttwitter-api
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